Shorter posts, links, or thoughts. No schedule, not heavily considered.
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Inboxeter
Just checked my email, and I’m not sure whether to find this amusing or depressing. I got an email sent from my Mum & Dad from a motorway service station (near Exeter) at 2:55 a.m. They are on their way to catch the ferry to Santander. I used to think that this sort of tech…
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Weekender
I was just about to go back and edit a mistake in the June 22nd entry. I managed to omit the fact that it was my beautiful and wonderful Louise’s birthday (she probably hates being 21 again by now… surely…). But now I need to be honest, and anyway, she’s already seen that I missed…
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Xmas
I was just checking back some notes about my recent redesign, it took me over 4 months to do, not in straight work hours, just took that long to get up enough drive to do the damn thing… Then I find out that I can write tag lines for websites without even realising it. Am…
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Captions
ikea – meant to say, Louise was reading through (actually reading…) the catalogue the other night and noticed that it is filled with little tidbits… for example, one page has a room with a man over at a CD player, and a baby facing the camera sitting in a chair. The captions detail the price…
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Imperiatric
Tuppence – this seems to be the theme of my week so far – started on Sunday whilst we were trying to figure out how much carpet we would need for our new living room: “Right, if it’s 25 feet by 11 feet, and the carpet costs £6.99 a sq.metre, and it only comes in…
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Quasimmuter
Started commuting into Glasgow a couple of days a week. I’m in that funny limbo land at the moment where I’m not a ‘commuter’ as I don’t do it often enough, so I am viewing each short trip as, well, a curiosity. I used to love getting the train to college, but it was a…
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Conversations
Life is a funny old thing, hell you don’t need me to tell you that. It’s been a while since I’ve written anything down, committed it to a storable electronic format, not really sure why I am, but just know that I need to. It’s funny how a few things can jog the memory, a…
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Weekender
Relaxed, calm, sunburnt, and quite possible still drunk/hungover… Me and few thousand others will be thinking back to the weekend already, the glorious sunshine, the lumps of carbon cooking on the BBQ, the ice cold beer, the smell of aftersun. All that and it’s only May. This glorious weekend was tempered only by the installation…
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Greener Grass
Sun is shining (weather is sweet), makes you wanna move your dancin’ feet! Was musing to a friend that since I returned from San Francisco, I’m questioning why I would want to stay in Scotland. We had things MUCH better when we stayed down south (financially, socially, weatherly) but why limit it to England. America,…
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Acquired
Well the cat’s out of the bag now, the company I work for has been acquired. What does this mean? Well it depends which level you look at it from. Business wise it should be good for ‘us’… yadda yadda yadda. Main change for me will be a different boss. Initial reaction to that piece…
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Distracted
I long for an even keel. The current business climate is wavering, up and down, up and down, I know it will level out, just wish it would hurry up – I hate NOT knowing. Problem now is that this kinda non-mood is beginning to wash off on me, find myself in a kind of…
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Splat
Crazy hectic times ahead. I would presume I am on hiatus. The company news we got has thrown everything up in the air, and it feels very like it did when I first joined here, kinda exciting, infuriating and scary at the same time. Admittedly there are slightly scary undertones, but I’ve been there before,…
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Born Free
Strange evolution – I’m currently reaching a stress free zone. Not sure if that is a good thing, and I know that sounds daft, but I fear I may relax so far I start speaking my mind. Telling people what I think, of them, of they way they are…wouldn’t really be right, I’m still figuring…
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Deep thought
God I hate spam. Believe it or not, I don’t want to see young naked chicks, I am quite happy with the size of penis and no I do not want to get rich quick. Lies of course which is how the damn stuff works, tapping into your deepest desires and promising you it all.…
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Dreaming
This is the most vivid dream I have ever had, yet it doesn’t deal with an every day scenario, I wrote this as soon as I woke for fear of losing the images it gave me. Tumbling, passing over shapes and forms, passing identities shard and splinter before allowing recognition. Only the faintest glimmer of…
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Down
Promises, promises. Stagnant is probably the wrong word, but that’s what it feels like. Same old, same old. Get up, go to work, go home, have dinner, watch TV (or sit at the PC), go to bed. Not been to T’ai Chi yet, nor found anywhere to play basketball. Have started playing 5-a-side weekly, but…
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Capaldi Ring
Did you have a good weekend? I most certainly did. If you are happy with that statement, feel free to ignore the following recap. Friday night, tried out Chili’s, a new pub, very nice, well done James, you said it was what Dumbarton needed and you were right! Drank too much Stella, had a laugh…
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Good, bad, mellow
Napster decision bad, meteor landing intriguing, NBA ALLstar weekend good! I feel a lot mellower (is that even a word?) now. Not sure whether it was my rant last week, the time I had sitting about thinking when I was prone on my bed, or whether I’ve just reached a point where all I can…
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Traffic
Movie info from IMDB Movie reviews from Metacritic Nice pace, intelligent handling of the ‘issue’ behind the story. Acting was solid by all main characters. If you enjoyed American Beauty you should enjoy this. If you want an exciting film go elsewhere. If you want to be treated like an intelligent adult who doesn’t need…
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Reminder
It’s there, sitting underneath the surface, never too far out of reach. A friend’s situation brings it back, but it is less painful this time, and I know it will continue to fade, to become a dusty memory. Each iteration dulling the anguish, drizzling out the flame. I don’t cling to it, it is not…